Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players react to \u201cexpensive\u201d Drow armor Larian StudiosNot all armor is forged equally, as Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players have noticed a huge price discrepancy between different sets, despite them being nearly identical in terms of stats. The incredible success of cosmetic DLC in video games has proven that people will pay to look good, even in the digital realm. Even the developers of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 aren\u2019t immune to this, as some of the clothing items from the Divinity games can only be acquired through more expensive editions. Luckily, PC players don\u2019t have to worry about their edition, as there are tons of costume mods for Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 that let you deck out your characters in much finer gear than you can find in-game. It seems the in-game merchants also have no problem charging more for aesthetics, as proven in a thread on the Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 Reddit. This is due to Drow Studded Leather costing 1000 gold pieces, while Leather Armor +1 costs 130, despite them having almost identical stats. \u201cEveryone looks hot in Drow armour. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the difference,\u201d one user explained, while another said, \u201cSexiness is worth 870gp.\u201d \u201cStats wise nothing. But the one on the right is \u201cmagic\u201d armor while the one on the left is not,\u201d another user wrote, \u201cI\u2019m not sure why the one on the left is blue \/ more rare because in the dm guide the one on the right would be worth more gold.\u201d There is a small mechanical difference, but it only applies to a few classes. \u201cThe Drow armor does look better. But there is an edge case where it also works better. The way it\u2019s coded, stealth +1 adds to your proficiency modifier, but the +1 bonus is +1 after the the calculation. \u201cSo if you have expertise in stealth (or maybe if you\u2019re a bard) the Drow armor makes it +2 total. Small bonus, but at no cost.\u201d In-universe, the price increase makes sense, considering Drow armor is extremely difficult to acquire. The fact that it\u2019s strong despite being nonmagical would also be beneficial, as it could be enchanted even further. When it comes to metagaming and breaking down the numbers, then the extra few hundred gold doesn\u2019t add up, even if it does make Astarion somehow even hotter than he already is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players react to \u201cexpensive\u201d Drow armor Larian StudiosNot all armor is forged equally, as Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players have noticed a huge price discrepancy between different sets, despite them being nearly identical in terms of stats. The incredible success of cosmetic DLC in video games has proven that people will pay to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}